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Laine Stump
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This fixes the crash described here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-August/msg00162.html In short, we were calling ioctl(SIOCETHTOOL) pointing to a too-short object that was a local on the stack, resulting in the memory past the end of the object being overwritten. This was because the struct used by the ETHTOOL_GFEATURES command of SIOCETHTOOL ends with a 0-length array, but we were telling ethtool that it could use 2 elements on the array. The fix is to allocate the necessary memory with VIR_ALLOC_VAR(), including the extra length needed for a 2 element array at the end.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>